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FOUR AUNTIES AND A WEDDING BY JESSE Q. SUTANTO

7/29/2022

I'm not surprised that Four Aunties and a Wedding is another top favorite from this author. She truly slays these books! Not only are they hilarious but the mysteries are so much fun!

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: March 29, 2022
Genre: Romantic Comedy. Mystery.
Series: Aunties series #2
Pages: 303 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: Purchased.

The aunties are back, fiercer than ever and ready to handle any catastrophe—even the mafia—in this delightful and hilarious sequel by Jesse Q. Sutanto, author of Dial A for Aunties.

Meddy Chan has been to countless weddings, but she never imagined how her own would turn out. Now the day has arrived, and she can't wait to marry her college sweetheart, Nathan. Instead of having Ma and the aunts cater to her wedding, Meddy wants them to enjoy the day as guests. As a compromise, they find the perfect wedding vendors: a Chinese-Indonesian family-run company just like theirs. Meddy is hesitant at first, but she hits it off right away with the wedding photographer, Staphanie, who reminds Meddy of herself, down to the unfortunately misspelled name.

Meddy realizes that is where their similarities end, however, when she overhears Staphanie talking about taking out a target.

GIRL OVERBOARD BY SANDRA BLOCK

7/25/2022

Girl Overboard is a solid YA mystery and is a perfect read for summer! I can't recall ever reading a book that takes place on a cruise to I loved the setting here!

Rating: ★★★
Release Date: May 3, 2022
Genre: Young Adult Mystery
Series: None.
Pages: 250 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: Purchased.

This fast-paced thriller about a girl who investigates her friend's disappearance during their cruise ship vacation is Ruth Ware’s The Woman in Cabin 10 for teens—and it’s a paperback original!

When Izzy meets Jade on a cruise to Bermuda, her new daredevil friend turns Izzy’s boring family vacation into the trip of a lifetime. Until Jade goes missing.

The investigators claim Jade fell overboard, but Izzy knows better. Her friend had secrets—secrets that might have gotten her killed. As Izzy digs deeper into Jade’s disappearance, she realizes that someone doesn’t want her to find the truth. And if she’s not careful, Izzy might not get off this ship alive.

Underlined is a line of totally addictive romance, thriller, and horror paperback original titles coming to you fast and furious each month.

ARSENIC AND ADOBO BY MIA P. MANANSALA

7/21/2022

A loved this cultural culinary cozy! I'm already excited to start he next one based on this book. What great characters!

Rating: ★★★★
Release Date: May 4, 2021
Genre: Cozy Mystery.
Series: None.
Pages: 330 pages
Format: Hardcover. Source: BOTM Box

The first book in a new culinary cozy series!

When Lila Macapagal moves back home to recover from a horrible breakup, her life seems to be following all the typical rom-com tropes. She's tasked with saving her Tita Rosie's failing restaurant, and she has to deal with a group of matchmaking aunties who shower her with love and judgment. But when a notoriously nasty food critic (who happens to be her ex-boyfriend) drops dead moments after a confrontation with Lila, her life quickly swerves from a Nora Ephron romp to an Agatha Christie case.

With the cops treating her like she's the one and only suspect, and the shady landlord looking to finally kick the Macapagal family out and resell the storefront, Lila's left with no choice but to conduct her own investigation. Armed with the nosy auntie network, her barista best bud, and her trusted Dachshund, Longanisa, Lila takes on this tasty, twisted case and soon finds her own neck on the chopping block…

A GOOD GIRLS GUIDE TO MURDER BY HOLLY JACKSON

7/17/2022

This is the first book in a long time that actually lived up to the hype for me! What an incredibly gripping read! And it's young adult! I highly recommend it.

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: February 4, 2020
Genre: YA Mystery and Suspense
Series: A Good Girl's Guide to Murder #1
Pages: 389 pages
Format: Hardcover. Source: Purchased.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES WITH OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD• Everyone is talking about this addictive must-read mystery with shades of Serial and Making a Murderer about an investigation turned obsession, full of twists and turns and with an ending you'll never expect.

Everyone in Fairview knows the story.

Pretty and popular high school senior Andie Bell was murdered by her boyfriend, Sal Singh, who then killed himself. It was all anyone could talk about. And five years later, Pip sees how the tragedy still haunts her town.

But she can't shake the feeling that there was more to what happened that day. She knew Sal when she was a child, and he was always so kind to her. How could he possibly have been a killer?

THE ROCKY ROAD TO RUIN BY MERI ALLEN

7/14/2022

The Rocky Road to Ruin is the first delicious book in the Ice Cream Shop mystery series! Culinary cozies are my favorite type to read and this one delivered!

Rating: ★★★★
Release Date: July 27, 2021
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Series: The Ice Cream Shop Mystery series #1
Pages: 330 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: Purchased.

Justice will be swirled by amateur sleuth Riley Rhodes in the first in Meri Allen's brand-new mystery series, The Rocky Road to Ruin!

Riley Rhodes, travel food blogger and librarian at the CIA, makes a bittersweet return to her childhood home of Penniman, Connecticut – land of dairy farms and covered bridges - for a funeral. Despite the circumstances, Riley’s trip home is sprinkled with reunions with old friends, visits to her father’s cozy bookshop on the town green, and joyful hours behind the counter at the beloved Udderly Delicious Ice Cream Shop. It feels like a time to help her friend Caroline rebuild after her mother’s death, and for Riley to do a bit of her own reflecting after a botched undercover mission in Italy. After all, it’s always good to be home.

But Caroline and her brother Mike have to decide what to do with the assets they’ve inherited – the ice cream shop as well as the farm they grew up on – and they’ve never seen eye to eye. Trouble begins to swirl as Riley is spooked by reports of a stranger camping behind the farm and by the odd behavior of the shop’s

THE REUNION BY MEGHAN QUINN

7/10/2022

I loved The Reunion! Meghan was able to sucessfully pull of three love stories in one and make it laughable!

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: February 22, 2022
Genre: Romantic Comedy. Family Drama.
Series: None.
Pages: 429 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: Purchased.

From the USA Today bestselling author of The Wedding Game comes a new romantic comedy about the antics that ensue when three siblings come together for their parents’ fiftieth-anniversary party.

Martin and Peggy Chance believe love should last a lifetime. With their fiftieth wedding anniversary on the horizon, they’ve modeled a beautiful relationship for their three grown children. But to their dismay, that lesson hasn’t quite caught on—the three siblings just can’t seem to take a chance and find love in their own lives.

There’s Ford, the eldest, devoted to his work and resistant to romance…or so he claims. Cooper, the middle child, can’t get past his divorce—until he reconnects with a feisty baker from his past. And Palmer, the baby of the family, is the free-spirited world traveler who always pictured herself with someone other than a handsome small-town family doctor.

MY KILLER VACATION BY TESSA BAILEY

7/6/2022

I wanted to love My Killer Vacation but I just couldn't get into it. Everything was too quick and it felt a little forced for me.

Rating: ★★★
Release Date: June 6, 2022
Genre: Romcom and Mystery
Series: None
Pages: 296 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: Purchased.

An all-new, spicy murder mystery from Tessa Bailey, #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Happened One Summer...

It was supposed to be a relaxing vacation in sweet, sunny Cape Cod—just me and my beloved brother—but discovering a corpse in our rental house really throws a wrench into our tanning schedule. Now a rude, crude bounty hunter has arrived on the back of his motorcycle to catch the killer and refuses to believe I can be helpful, despite countless hours of true crime podcast listening. Not to mention a fulfilling teaching career of wrangling second graders.

A brash bounty hunter and an energetic elementary schoolteacher: the murder-solving team no one asked for, but thanks to these pesky attempts on my life, we’re stuck together, come hell or high tide.

SO NOT MEANT TO BE BY MEGHAN QUINN

7/3/2022

So Not Meant to Be is another hilarious romantic comedy from Meghan Quinn. If you enjoy the enemies-to-lovers trope then this is a book you don't want to miss!

Rating: ★★★★
Release Date: June 7, 2022
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Series: Billionaire Romcom #2
Pages: 512 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: Purchased.

From USA Today and Amazon Charts bestselling author Meghan Quinn, comes a fresh take on a romantic comedy classic, When Harry Met Sally. This steamy, laugh-out-loud, enemies to lovers romance is about an annoyingly handsome coworker and the woman who refuses to be charmed by him.

Am I friends with JP Cane?

Ha! That's laughable.

Besides the fact that he’s adopted some far-fetched notion from the movie When Harry Met Sally that says men and women can't be friends and work together, it’s safe to say we're not friends. He's annoyingly loud, obnoxiously handsome, and has made an art out of poking all my hot buttons . . . multiple times a day.

So you can imagine how disgruntled I am when I not only have to fly to San Francisco with him for work, but stay in the same

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